Hans

EV, space and AI enthusiast

[stevenmarkryan @stevenmarkryan]

• "At All Costs" - Elon Knows
• @shaunmmaguire's S-Tier SpaceXAI Article
• Live Grok Voice Demo

[Mister Lee @MisterLeeHODL]

The claude folks should just own this 🤣

[Tesla Semi @tesla_semi]

Semi is here

Today, we're launching high volume production

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing taxpayers more than $10 billion per year.

We went inside the system and exposed it all.

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

BREAKING: American ambassador to South Africa, @BrentBozell, visits AfriForum Headquarters to discuss and witness practical, community-based solutions for South Africa.

The ambassador congratulated AfriForum on its successes on community level in making South Africa cleaner and safer. He also thanked the organisation for its tireless efforts to try to help resolve the diplomatic crisis between the Trump Administration and the South African government for the benefit of the people of South Africa.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Just don’t call it jerky https://t.co/RbWfRSjnLL

[Piet le Roux @pietleroux]

Step by step we will end BEE.

This time, no more BEE gatekeeping for estate agents, property developers, mortgage originators, rental administrators, etc., etc. @Sakeliga

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

There is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation.

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 BREAKING: TRUMP REJECTS UN AI TREATY, OFFICIALLY BANS THE TERM “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”

"The United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist schemeto control artificial intelligence."

"The word 'artificial' makes it sound fake. It is not fake... It’s actually amazing..."

"From this point forward, all United States documents will use the term: SUPER INTELLIGENCE"

"Whoever wins Super Intelligence, wins."

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks. AI technology has not taken some unexpected, dangerous turn, but the hype around it — propelled by what appears to be a well orchestrated PR campaign — has drummed up considerable fear. I worry that it represents a setback for our field.

I have written frequently that fears of AI are overhyped. AI’s capabilities can be uncannily human-like and unpredictable, and it’s rational to worry when people who are directly involved express concerns. But I see the problems as a sign of the engineering work that ahead, rather than insurmountable barriers or the sky falling. AI technology continues to advance — which is a good thing! — but technical advances, poorly understood by the public, give those who seek to generate hype repeated opportunities to do so.

First, I don’t see any step up in the risk of human extinction from AI compared to a few months ago. The theories about this remain the same fantastical, science fiction scenarios as a few months ago. The biggest change in AI risk is its cybersecurity capabilities — a topic which we should take seriously — but this, too, will not lead to the end of the world.

The most notable recent event leading to increased fear was when an OpenAI team deployed an agent swarm that hacked into Hugging Face. Much of the popular press contained significant hype. For example, some publications reported that a swarm of 1,200 agents carried out the attack. While this was technically accurate, as I write this, I have about 1,300 processes running on my laptop. Yes, the ability to get large swarms of agents to work in parallel on a task is a significant technical advance, And, in computing, many processes run at the same time. So this shouldn’t be seen as some magical capability.

Additionally, OpenAI’s buggy sandboxing and monitoring processes were key to enabling this incident. Fixing these bugs and putting in place improved monitoring would be appropriate fixes, not pausing AI. There are many well known ways to attack software systems. The main advantage of AI agents is that they are relentless. They will tirelessly try many tactics — and have the patience to chain vulnerabilities together — that previously would have taken an infeasible amount of human effort. But in the long term, I believe the advantage will lie with defenders (because they have more information with which to identify bugs, which they can fix), but the cyber-threat landscape has changed significantly. There are still bottlenecks to identifying and exploiting a vulnerability. AI agents still have to try a lot of things to see what works, and taking these actions takes time and might be detected by defenders. This is why, even though it is now easy to obtain versions of leading open weight models that have had their guardrails removed or weakened, so they will not refuse to try to execute cyber attacks, the world has not ended.

I am also concerned about the anthropomorphization of AI in a lot of reporting, where LLMs and agents are unnecessarily treated as if they were people. If I wield a hammer, miss a nail, and accidentally dent the wall, it’s not the fault of the hammer. The problem lies in how I used the hammer. Similarly, if I prompt an agent and it hacks into someone else’s system, the responsibility lies with me, not the agent.

Of course, we want to build systems that are as safe and predictable as possible. (For example, an unsafe hammer would be one whose head randomly flies off under normal use.) Today’s agentic systems are not predictable, but I see no reason why, by applying sound engineering practices, we won’t be able to make them extremely safe to use. One new element in the forecasts of AI-enabled doom is AI companies disclaiming responsibility for their own products. “I didn’t do it; my out-of-control agent did!” There’s a balance to be struck between the responsibility of the tool maker and the tool user, but when something goes wrong, let’s hold the people building and/or using the hammer responsible, rather than the hammer. (By the way, if you’re worried about AI bioweapon risk, David Bellamy has a great post on why this, too, is overhyped. Briefly, the bottleneck in building a bioweapon is not intelligence, but lab work and manufacturing.)

Pausing AI progress will create much more harm than benefit. First, our adversaries will certainly not slow down. Second, engineering requires discovering problems empirically so we can fix them. If we pause AI by a decade, we will also delay finding and implementing safety engineering fixes by about the same duration.

Of course, the incentive to stoke fears — for regulatory capture, to garner attention, or to make one’s technology seem more powerful — remains the same as before. Disclaiming responsibility is a new one. Taking a hard technical look at the actual risks however, I see little factual basis for the degree of fear that’s been stoked up. We still have hard research and engineering work ahead to improve AI safety, but the beneficial applications continue to vastly outweigh the risks, and we should keep building.

[Original text (with links): https://t.co/jni2tWazAH ]

[DJ Seo @djseo]

Elon made some of the key technical decisions and still does to this day. We meet with him weekly (often more frequently). He goes deep with the team and contributes significantly. I don’t know how he does this, but he just makes it happen. Consistently for the past 10 years, and I don’t see this changing.

[Hans @_hansk]

RT @Georg_Pazderski: ICH KÖNNTE KOTZEN!

Die Berliner SED-PDS-LINKE sieht das HAMAS-Massaker vom 07. Oktober 2023 als „Akt des Widerstandes…

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

As @POTUS has made clear, the South African people are being failed by a government that is destroying its economy through an obsessive pursuit of racial grievance against the Afrikaner minority. The South African government has consistently failed to adequately address rural crime, violent and dehumanizing rhetoric, and race-based discriminatory policies against Afrikaners and other minority populations.

Today, I’m announcing a new visa restriction policy targeting foreign nationals who enact or enable policies that promote race-based discrimination, incite violence, or enable land confiscation without compensation in South Africa. Those responsible for these injustices have no place in the United States. https://t.co/aSTn73Punn

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Frequent video gamers performed on cognitive tests like non-gamers that were ~13.7 years younger

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇿🇦 South Africa has 63 million people.

Only about 7.1 million earn enough to pay personal income tax.

Those fewer than one million higher earners underpin most of the state’s revenue.

On the other side: about 26 million people get a social grant. That’s roughly 35 grant recipients for every one of those top taxpayers.

[Tesla @Tesla]

With @Cybertruck, we introduced & scaled many automotive firsts

48V architecture: 4x lower current that enables thinner, lighter wiring

True Steer-by-Wire with no mechanical steering link, enabling variable steering response

Combined with rear-wheel steering, this also brought coordinated front + rear steering for greater low speed maneuverability & high speed stability

Structural stainless-steel exoskeleton: allows exterior panels to carry structural loads, resulting in far higher torsional stiffness

Full-hard stainless air bending: forms ultra-hard exterior panels without damaging the visible surface

Etherloop: gigabit vehicle network that eliminates ~70% of cross-vehicle wiring

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

Semi is coming to Europe

– Up to 550km of range at 40T (fully loaded)
– 1 kWh/km energy consumption
– Megacharger at up to 800 kW recovers ~60% of range in 30 minutes
– ePTO up to 25kW
– 40T gross combination weight, 9,100kg curb weight

https://t.co/sE4RpWb2w4

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Larry, a 98-year-old, just bought a new @Tesla Model Y, and he uses FSD (Supervised) to drive him everywhere. His first car was a 1931 Ford Model A haha. He uses Grok to navigate.

"It has no problems. In fact, the other day FSD stopped when a chipmunk was crossing the road."

Definitely a video worth checking out: https://t.co/mQK3wU2HxS

[Volkstaat @Volkstaat10]

So let's get this straight: a legal/ illegal migrant from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Nigeria etc receives no punitive affirmative action re jobs, tax, education etc. while an Afrikaner whose ancestors founded and built SA are treated as second class citizens. How is this right?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A Storm of Cybercabs